LONDONER EATS GRASS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 February 1940, Page 2

LONDONER EATS GRASS

SAYS “IT KEEPS'ME YOUNG.” LONDON, January 6. At least one Londoner is not ■worried by the prospects of food rationing. He is J. R. 13. Branson, of Battersea, a 67-year-old retired lawyer. For three years he has eaten nothing but grass, from his lawn or from the bowling green, and raw vegetables. “The diet has rejuvenated me wonderfully,” he said this week. “I could bicycle 90 miles a day -without any trouble. In rhe Winter I keep m.v grass in boxes and eat it. dried. They are my haystacks. At first. I had to get accustomed to the unusual feel of grass in my mouth. But now I get along splendidly.” Mr. Branson had just eaten a breakfast which consisted of “a bit of leek, a bit. of turnip, some currants, some rolled oats, and a small handful of grass cut from a nearby bowling green,” all raw.

“The only trouble about rationing is that 1 am fond of sugar and used it to flavour my grass. But I have been experimenting with vegetabels, and I find I can use chopped-up beetroot and apples or pears to flavour it instead.” Mr. Branson said he considered that cooking took alk the goodness out of vegetables. “I never eat anything cooked,” lie added. “Occasionally in the evening I have a little cheese, but if I want to have a real meal I add a few rolled oats to my vegetables.”